Maintenance Planner

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Maintenance Planner

Delhi, LA

The position of Maintenance Planner Utilities plans and schedules the daily activities of the Utilities maintenance crew to ensure maximum productivity and plant reliability. This position encompasses the Utilities area (Boiler and Refrigeration) and is heavily involved in the operation and maintenance of the plant’s Ammonia Refrigeration system, with specific duties in the PSM program.

• Improving maintenance workforce effectiveness by eliminating potential delays and obstacles through proper planning and coordination of parts, equipment and people.
• Promoting a safe working environment and safe work practices.
• Planning major repairs.
• Planning work for quality with efficiency and contributing to the effective utilization of the R & M budget.
• Maintaining information to permit meaningful analysis of results and work completed.

• Traveling to work site to evaluate problem and plan repairs.
• Determining specific location and scope of work.
• Determining material requirements, parts locations, and issue slips.
• Identifying special tools, ladders and rigging.
• Providing work procedures where they exist.
• Identifying safety precautions, permits and LOTO requirements.
• Determining staffing requirements and time estimates.
• Identifying craft coordination issues and duplicating work orders as required.
• Providing sketches or drawings as needed.
• Including preventive, predictive and precision maintenance in work plans.
• Developing and maintaining a file of best practices (safe work procedures).
• Assisting in decisions to apply Precision Maintenance skills to scheduled jobs and providing direction with Precision Maintenance forms.

• Writing requisitions using SAP.
• Tracking requisitions and following up to ensure timely delivery of materials.
• Contacting vendors as required to ensure proper materials are ordered.
• Acting when necessary to ensure stores materials are picked up or delivered.
• Informing Team Leads when materials have arrived and job is ready to schedule.
• Helping to control costs by ensuring that unused materials are returned.
• Managing the work order backlog by verifying descriptions, equipment numbers, crew, priority and location priority.
• Working with Production Area Leads and Maintenance Team Leads at the Daily Planning Meeting to delete duplicate or unnecessary work orders.
• Forwarding work orders for additional approval or engineering required.
• Adding comments to history and closing completed work orders.
• Periodically reviewing backlog to determine if work request is still appropriate.
• Maintaining a planned backlog of routine and shutdown work using a priority system.

• Participating with area production leads and maintenance leads in the Daily Planning Meeting to consult on equipment or facilities to be maintained.
• Sharing in the setting of priorities for planning and scheduling of all non-emergency work.
• Communicating job plans and schedules, and identifying jobs that will not be completed per the schedule and must be carried over.
• Recommending long-range maintenance needs and preparing a weekly forecast of all jobs scheduled for the following week.
• Ensuring jobs are prepped for shutdowns and preparing shutdown packages.
• Supervising shutdown critique process and documenting results.

• Creating new locations as required.
• Making equipment transfers.
• Adding new equipment specifications.
• Entering new and updating existing equipment specifications.
• Tagging equipment in the field.
• Building and adding bill of materials.
• Participating in inventory adjustment/reduction.

• Learning parts‑finding techniques in SAP.
• Writing work orders and purchase requisitions for in‑house or outside vendors to…